daltonic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the chemist John Dalton, Daltonian.
Example Sentences
- "1866, John Henry Pepper, The Playbook of Metals: A New Edition, page 150, All our ideas are so interwoven with the Daltonic theory that we cannot transform ourselves into the times when it did not exist."
- "1875 October 8, S. E. Phillips, The Atomic Weight of the Cerium Metals, William Crooke (editor), The Chemical News, Volume 31: 1875, page 176, It seems to me a cardinal point with many to consider the elements as blank units which may be played with numerically; they coldly and grudgingly accept the Daltonic proportions, and seem to consider it immaterial whether an element be xCl, or x₂Cl₂, or x₃Cl₃, excepting as far as volume or specific heat may determine."
- "An “ion” is an atom of matter—I mean a Daltonic atom; hydrogen, for example—with such an electron attached to it, or detached from it."
- "Using three tests, bridge', 'differences and 'mosaic', can be as rapid as 1 minute per test but a child slightly Daltonic on PIC may give positive results on only two of the three; which two, cannot be predicted."
- "Here we see the very same restrictions, the same blind — and at best Daltonic — policies of the ideological leaders."
- ""[…]I have a cousin with Daltonic vision; it's not so strange in a man not to see the color red.""
Etymology
From Dalton + -ic.